For the record, I've never read that story. The toaster shirt came about because we were going to do a RILF shirt (Robot I'd like to...) with a image of a Johnny Five-style robot with lipstick on. We started talking about Battlestar Galactica and the arguing over whether "Number Six" was a RILF (arguing over the technical definition of "robot"). Someone referred to her as a "toaster", as is common in the show, and thus Tilf was born.

I just got my shirts in the mail (thanks Gabriel!) and they're AWESOME!!! Very high quality heavy cotton construction and they feel comfy. If anybody is on the fence about picking up a shirt or three from SquareWear, I'd say DO EET! Not only will you get a pretty kickass shirt, you'll also help stimulate the Bitcoin economy.

I was going to jump in the conversation, but I never knew you had to pay money to register on SomethingAwful.

T-shirts like squarewear's aren't really humorous if you have to go into a 6 minute, Asperger's-fueled diatribe to explain the joke to someone you meet in meatspace, and then still have less than a 1% chance of getting it.

The T-shirt would only be useful if you ran into another Bitcoin fan, and even then you are not so much likely to get a compliment on how funny your shirt is as your odds of getting a slight grin from the fellow Bitcoin fan before you both go back to staring at your feet and shuffle past each other.

By the way, this doesn't just go for Bitcoins, it goes for all niche and subjective geek/techie/meme-based T-shirts that are more likely to get you teased than laid.

Bitcoin T-shirts are just especially egregrious, since it's like multiple layers of awful nerdiness, its the kind of stuff that even your friend whose every discussion is basically from an engadget RSS feed would be embarrassed to be overheard talking about.

If someone really wanted to start doing this community huge favors, they should start a store that sells nice polo shirts and khaki pants without Bitcoin logos, and maybe some cologne or something.

If I wasn't so sure that you would ignore the rules and get a ban within 48 hours before lurking or attempting to enjoy Something Awful, I would be willing to pony up TEN FIAT DOLLARS to sponsor you since there is a good chance you could get much more out of it than you would from the Bitcoin forums.

lol I read that thread all the time. Perhaps some of them might want one of the [cough blatant ad cough cough] forthcoming bitcoin mining accidents shirts.

I'd consider buying an 'accidents' tshirt if you base one off this:

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We have received a report from an anonymous bitcoin miner who had himself a little accident overnight. The miner, who we’ll nickname Tinkles, aka ‘The Real Bitcoin Faucet’, suffers from occasional adult urinary incontinence (he sometimes leaks piss), a condition exacerbated by consumption of large amounts of alcohol.